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The only man to lead both the FBI and the CIA urged caution to senators who might vote to confirm former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Kash Patel to lead the FBI, according to a letter sent to senators this week. "I am deeply concerned about the potential nominations of Mr. Kash Patel to lead the FBI and the inclusion of Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as DNI in intelligence roles," William Webster, who led the FBI during the Carter and Reagan administrations and the CIA after that, said in a letter to senators on Thursday. Webster...

<p>Federal investigators accused U.S. Justice Department superiors of derailing the last, best chance of solving the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance in 1978 by refusing to force former President Richard Nixon and Teamsters Union President Frank Fitzsimmons to testify before a Detroit grand jury, newly obtained FBI records show.</p>

<p>BOSTON -- For more than 20 years, FBI headquarters in Washington knew that its agents in Boston were using professional killers and mob leaders as informants and shielding them from prosecution for serious crimes including murder, the Associated Press has learned.</p>